@sam_amick Wow!!!! Just wow.

I started as a kiddie pool attendant. I sold carrot and celery sticks door to door. Failed. T-shirt company. Failed. Marketing company. Failed. Record label. Went out of business. Then at 28, I got invited onto a private jet.

The guy who directed Iron Man used to be an actor who couldn't get a callback.

Let me give you some context. It's the early '90s, and he's an actor in LA. And if you've ever met an actor in LA, you know the job is mostly waiting. Waiting on auditions, callbacks, or somebody to finally say yes.

When my partner and I started Marquis Jet, we didn't have access to a single jet. Nobody was going to hand two twenty-somethings a fleet of planes. So we got a meeting with NetJets and brought our own customers to make the case for us.

Walking onto that plane was like the scene in The Wizard of Oz when everything goes from black and white to color. I thought: people fly like this? By the time we landed, my partner and I had a plan. Start a private jet company.

People think having no experience was the obstacle. For me it was the gift. No one ever taught me about business. My dad owned a plumbing supply house. So everything I did looked different from my competition.

My wife asks her team a question I love: "If nobody told you how to do your job, how would you do it?" Start there.

One of my core beliefs: if the opportunity doesn't exist, create it.

Small problem. We had no airplanes. We had no experience.

Nobody said yes. So he did something I love. He stopped waiting and wrote his own movie. No studio. No real budget. Just a script about a bunch of buddies trying to figure life out.

We started Marquis Jet anyway. It went on to do over $5 billion in sales. We sold it to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, the NetJets division.

That movie was Swingers. It launched his career (and Vince Vaughn's too). Twelve years later, Marvel hands Jon Favreau Iron Man. Then came The Jungle Book, The Lion King, and The Mandalorian.

But it all started when he stopped waiting for permission. I know that feeling.